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Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer (born 1929)

comics artist, journalist, playwright, drawer, actor

  • Pratt Institute

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The Chronicles of Harris Burdick
Meanwhile--
The Man in the Ceiling (Michael Di Capua Books)
The man in the ceiling
Man in the Ceiling
Cousin Joseph
Ronald Reagan in Movie America
Kill My Mother
Passionella, and other stories
The explainers
Elliot Loves
I Lost My Bear
Knock, knock
Bark, George
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears
Sick, sick, sick
Backing into forward
The great comic book heroes
I'm not Bobby!
The house across the street
America, from Eisenhower to Reagan
The daddy mountain
By the Side of the Road
Birthday ball
Feiffer
Tantrum
Feiffer
A bad friend
Carnal knowledge
The man in the ceiling
Little murders
Marriage is an invasion of privacy, and other dangerous views
I lost my bear
A room with a zoo
Feiffer's children
Boy, girl, boy, girl
Grown ups
The White House murder case
Backing into forward
Der Fluch des Lachens.
Feiffer
Hold me!
Ackroyd
Passionella and other stories
Room with a Zoo, A
Best American Plays. Seventh Series 1967-1973
Feiffer on Nixon
Harry, the rat with women
Aboie, Georges!
Backing into forward
Der Mann an der Decke
Meanwhile--
House Across the Street, The
Jules Feiffer's America
Feiffer on civil rights
The Comics journal
Daddy Mountain, The (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))
Pictures at a prosecution
Matar a mi madre
Out of Line
Feiffer, The Collected Works, Vol. 1
El peatge màgic
Feiffer's album
Smart George
Feiffer, the collected works
Crawling Arnold
The unexpurgated memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler
Rupert Can Dance
De r fluch des lachens
The Penguin Feiffer
Popeye, the movie novel
I'm Not Bobby!
The ghost script
Passionella
Feiffer's people
Bark, George
Ackroyd
Kitty Up!
God bless
Anthony Rose
Jules Feiffer papers
Zap! Pow! Bam! the superhero
Was getekend, Feiffer
By the Side of the Road
Knock knock
White House Murder Case
I Lost My Bear
Hold me
Sick, Sick, Sick
Passionella, and other stories
Feiffer's People
Smart George
A Room With a Zoo
Boy,girl,boy,girl
Crawling Arnold
Anthony Rose
Explainers
Little murders
Backing into forward
Pictures at a prosecution
The explainers
Passionella, and Other Stories
A bad friend
Hold me!
Sick, Sick, Sick (Fontana books)
I'm Not Bobby
Ghost Script
The White House murder case
Elliot loves
Little murders
The unexpurgated memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler
Knock Knock. Playbill.
Carnal knowledge
Crawling Arnold
Kill My Mother
The great comic book heroes
Bark, George
Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears
Little Murders- London Playbill/Programme 1967- Aldwych Theatre
Kill my mother
The White House Murder Case & Dick and Jane
The Man in the Ceiling
Meanwhile...
Feiffer's people
THE WHITE HOUSE MURDER CASE & DICK AND JANE
Retsaḥ poh, retsaḥ sham
Grown ups
Sick, Sick, Sick
A bad friend
Feiffer's album
Dick and Jane
Against the Grain
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer (1998-03-07)
Harry, the rat with women, a novel
The Great Comic Book Heroes
BOY, GIRL. BOY, GIRL.
Amazing Grapes
Meanwhile..
Cousin Joseph
Feiffer's marriage manual
Feiffer Picture Book
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)

autobiographer, playwright

  • University of Cambridge, King's College London

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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow
Goodbye to Berlin
The Berlin Stories
The Other Persuasion
My guru and his disciple
The Memorial
Down There on a Visit
Kathleen and Frank
Christopher and his kind
Prater Violet
Mr Norris Changes Trains
A single man
Short Stories from the New Yorker
Diaries
Ramakrishna and his disciples
Where joy resides
The world in the evening
A meeting by the river
The Condor and the Cows
Lost years
Journey to a war
All the conspirators
Exhumations
People one ought to know
Vedanta for the Western World
Kathleen and Christopher
Isherwood on Writing
The song of God
Liberation
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden
Bhagavad Gita
Great English short stories
October
Lions and shadows: an education in the Twenties
The Sixties Diaries
The Animals
Frankenstein
Literary Voices #1
Cabaret
The Sixties
Prison etiquette
The Mortmere stories
Seven Great British Short Novels
Mon gourou et son disciple
A meeting by the river
Rencontre au bord du fleuve
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
Sally Bowles
Christopher e il suo mondo
Yoga und Gotteserfahrung
An approach to Vedanta
The wishing tree
The ascent of F.6 and On the frontier
Cabaret
Prater Violet
Vedanta for the Western World
Zi luo lan gu niang
Cabaret, Farväl till Berlin
The Berlin stories
Gefährdungsanalyse der Heuschrecken Deutschlands. Verbreitungsatlas, Gefährdungseinstufung und Schutzkonzepte.
Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination
Bhagavad-Gita
Desde lo más profundo
The last of Mr. Norris, by Christopher Isherwood
An Isherwood selection
Ramakrishna and his disciples
Goodbye to Berlin
Down there on a visit
Sukui naki hitobito
Vedanta for modern man
Christopher Isherwood's Commonplace book
Vedanta und Wir
Un Homme au singulier
Kathleen y Christopher
The last of Mr. Norris
The memorial, portrait of a family
The world in the evening
All the conspirators
Vedanta for the western world
Der Einzelgänger
Frankenstein
Praterveilchen
October
The Repton letters
Ākhrī salām
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (born 1945)

poet, essayist

  • Hollins University

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
The Living
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
An American childhood
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
Watch For The Light
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Words of Ages
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The writing life
The Maytrees
For the time being
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Readers Companion--Silver Level
Reader's Companion--Bronze Level
Teaching a Stone to Talk
Modern American memoirs
The Best American Essays 1999
Living by Fiction
Three by Annie Dillard
The Annie Dillard reader
Annie Dillard Reader, An
Mornings Like This
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
American Earth
Inventing the Truth
Modern American Memoirs
The Maytrees CD
Writing Life
Best American Essays, 1988 (Best American Essays)
The abundance
Holy the firm
Tickets for a prayer wheel
Teaching a stone to talk
Encounters with Chinese writers
Holy the firm
The Best American essays, 1988
Encounters with Chinese writers
For the Time Being
The Maytrees LP
An International Christmas
Außer der Zeit
An American childhood
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ; An American childhood ; The writing life
En vivant, en écrivant
Les vivants
Pèlerinage à Tinker Creek
The Annie Dillard Library
Am Rand der Neuen Welt
Annie Dillard Interview
Tickets for a prayer wheel
Late Harvest
Living by fiction
For the Time Being
Total Eclipse
The weasel
Give it all, give it now
From the Heartlands: Photos and Essays from the Midwest (Midwest Writers Ser. : No. 1)
Enseñarle a hablar a una piedra
Ich schreibe
Living by fiction
Au présent
Der freie Fall der Spottdrossel
Exploring Faith and Discipleship
Jacques Le Goff
Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014)

historian, French resistance fighter, medievalist, researcher

  • Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Thiers

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The medieval imagination
L' imaginaire médiéval
Time, work, & culture in the Middle Ages
Intellectuals in the Middle Ages
History and Memory
Your money or your life
The birth of Europe
Medieval civilization, 400-1500
Les intellectuels au Moyen Age
La civilisation de l'Occident médiéval
Pour un autre Moyen Age
Dictionnaire raisonné de l'Occident médiéval
Saint Louis
Das Hochmittelalter
Une histoire du corps au moyen âge
Un long moyen âge
Les intellectuels au Moyen Âge
My quest for the Middle Ages
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI; TRANS. BY CHRISTINE RHONE
Marchands et banquiers du Moyen âge ..
Un Moyen Âge en images
L' Europe est-elle née au moyen âge
Le dieu du moyen âge
Le Moyen Age et l'argent
Une vie pour l'histoire
Pour l'amour des villes
Marchands et banquiers du Moyen Age
Héros & merveilles du Moyen Age
Faire de l'histoire
Constructing the past
La vieille Europe et la nôtre
Le Moyen âge (1060-1330)
Naissance du purgatoire
Le Moyen âge
Saint François d'Assise
The medieval world
La Bourse et la vie
Héros du Moyen Âge
L' apogée de la chrétienté
Famille et parenté dans l'Occident médiéval
In Search of Sacred Time
En Busca de La Edad Media
Saint Francis of Assisi
Vingt siècles en cathédrales
Pour un autre Moyen Âge : temps, travail et culture en Occident
La Naissance du purgatoire
Héros du Moyen Age, le Saint et le Roi
Un autre Moyen Age
Faire de l'histoire, tome 1
Bêtes et Hommes dans le monde médiéval. Le Bestiaire des clercs du Ve au XIIIe siècle
Naissance du purgatoire
Mercaderes y Banqueros de La Edad Media
Pensar la historia/ History and Memory
The Birth of Europe (Making of Europe)
Money and the Middle Ages
The town as an agent of civilisation c.1200-c.1500
Avec Hanka
À la recherche du Moyen-Âge
Historia Universal - La Baja Edad Media - V. 11
La Civilizacion Del Occidente Medieval
Das Lachen im Mittelalter
À la recherche du temps sacré
La Bolsa y La Vida
La Nouvelle histoire
Herejias y Sociedades En La Europa Preindustrial (Historia de los Movimientos Sociales)
El Hombre Medieval
Un large Moyen Âge?
Medieval World; History of the European Society
Entrevista sobre la historia
Vieja Europa y El Mundo Moderno
Les Bâtisseurs des cathédrales gothiques
BIRTH OF EUROPE; TRANS. BY JANET LLOYD
Civilisation de L'Occident Medieval
The medieval world
Dialogue sur l'histoire
Histoire et imaginaire
Histoire de la France religieuse (L'Univers historique) (French Edition)
MY QUEST FOR THE MIDDLE AGES; TRANS. BY RICHARD VEASEY
Le Moyen Age aujourd'hui
My Quest for the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)
El Orden De La Memoria/ The Order of Memory (Paidos Basica / Basic Paidos)
História e memória
Histoire et mémoire
Les Maladies ont une histoire
Medieval callings
HISTÓRIA E MEMÓRIA - 1o.VOL : História -
Saint-Pétersbourg, une fenêtre sur la Russie
Le Dieu du Moyen Age
Droit du travail et societe (Petit traite du droit du travail)
La ville des Temps Modernes
La Edad Media explicada a los jóvenes
Apologie pour l'histoire ou Métier d'historien
Mercaderes Y Banqueros En La Edad Media/ Retailers and Bankers of Medieval Times (Humanidades / Humanities)
The birth of purgatory
L'Europe racontée aux jeunes
La Nouvelle histoire
La civilización del Occidente medieval
Sakiewka i życie
Europa Contada a Los Jovenes
Il Tramonto del Medioevo a Bologna
La civilisation de L'Occident me die val
Les calendriers
Historia Universal - La Baja Edad Media Volumen 11
Visions d'Europe
1492
Hérésies et sociétés dans l'Europe preíndustrielle 11. -18. siècles
L'Uomo medievale
Historia e memoria
Pensar La Historia
Une autre histoire
L'Europe expliquée aux jeunes
Intelligencja w wiekach średnich
Za jedan drugi srednji vijek
Une histoire du corps au Moyen Age
La civilisation de l'Occident médiéval
Le sacre royal à l'époque de Saint-Louis
François d'Assise, la vie d'un homme
Le Charivari
Istorii Ła Evropy, rasskazannai Ła deti Łam
Must we divide history into periods?
Srednevekovʹe i denʹgi
Mediaeval World
He Euro pe genne the ke ton Mesaio na?
Les intellectuels au moyen âge. --
Los intelectuales en la Edad Media
Crise de l'urbain futur de la ville
Nastanak čistilišta
Histoire de la France religieuse
Le moyen a ge
La première révolution européenne
Métamorphoses de la ville, crise de l'urbain, futur de la ville
Rome, the pilgrim's dream
Medieval civilization, 400-1500
La Ciudad y Las Murallas
Faut-il vraiment découper l'histoire en tranches?
Histoire de la France religieuse, tome 3
HISTÓRIA E MEMÓRIA IIo.VOL.: Memória -
Rozhdenie Evropy
Histoire de la France religieuse
Hommes et femmes du Moyen Âge
L'Homme médiéval
Héros et merveilles du Moyen Âge
Wiligelmo e Lanfranco nell'Europa romanica
L'Homme médiéval
La Borsa e La Vita (Quadrante)
San Francisco De Asis (Universitaria)
La Città e le mura
John Barth
John Barth (1930-2024)

  • Juilliard School, Johns Hopkins University

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The last voyage of Somebody the Sailor
The floating opera
The Sot-Weed Factor
On with the story
Once upon a time
The Tidewater tales
Lost in the funhouse
Coming Soon!!!
Twice-Told Tales
The end of the road
The Best American Short Stories 2007
The Friday book
The development
Exit Strategies
Further Fridays
Chimera
Giles goat-boy
The book of ten nights and a night
The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
Sabbatical
Letters
Where Three Roads Meet
The End of the Road
Giles goat-boy, or, The revised new syllabus
Giles Goat Boy
Where Three Roads Meet (Mariner)
Final Fridays Essays Lectures Tributes Other Nonfiction 1995
La croisière du Pokey
L'opéra flottant
The Literature Of Exhaustion And The Literature Of Replenishment
Don't Count on It
Plantador de Tabaco, El
Every third thought
Todd Andrews to the author
La Opera Flotante
A conversation with John Barth
Quimera
Collected stories
El plantador de tabaco
Browsing
Le Courtier en tabac
Antologia de Teologos Contemporaneos
Ft-Letters
Textos sobre el postmodernismo
Khimera
John Barth reads from Giles goat boy
The floating opera
The book of ten nights and a night
Sof ha-derekh
Plavucha︠i︡a opera
The sot-weed factor
Beautiful Swimmers
ha-Operah ha-tsafah
Uiva ooppera
Der Tabakhändler
Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017)

mathematician, pianist, philosopher, computer scientist, magician, chess composer

  • Princeton University, University of Chicago

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Alice in puzzle-land
Detective stories
Satan, cantor, and infinity
The lady or the tiger? and other logic puzzles
This book needs no title
The chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
What is the name of this book?
Forever undecided
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
The chess mysteries of the Arabian knights
Who Knows?
The tao is silent
Logical labyrinths
Theory of Formal Systems
First-order logic
The Riddle of Scheherazade
Set theory and the continuum problem
A Beginners Guide To Mathematical Logic
5000 B.C. and other philosophical fantasies
Diagonalization and self-reference
Recursion theory for metamathematics
Some Interesting Memories
Ça y est, je suis fou!!
King Arthur in search of his dog and other curious puzzles
Four Lives
A beginner's further guide to mathematical logic
The magic garden of George B
A Spiritual Journey
Mixed Bag
The Gödelian puzzle book
Reflections
Juegos de Ajedrez y Los Misticos Caballos
In Their Own Words
Rambles Through My Library
The lady or the tiger?
Leopoldo Alas y Ureña
Leopoldo Alas y Ureña (1852-1901)

journalist, literary critic, jurist

  • University of Oviedo, Universidad Central

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La Regenta
His only son
Ten tales
Leopoldo Alas "Clarin"
Cuentos
Obras Completas de Leopoldo Alas "Clarin"
Su único hijo
Juan Ruiz
Cuentos Completos/2. Edicion de Carolyn Richmond
Pablo Neruda and Nicanor Parra face to face
A Hoax/Supercheria (Hispanic Literature)
Ensayos y revistas
Leopoldo Alas
Su Unico Hijo/ The Only Son
Pipá
Su unico hijo (Diferencias / Differences)
Teresa Avecilla - El Hombre de Los Estrenos - 69
Pipa
Dona Berta y otras narraciones / Dona Berta and Other Narratives (El Libro De Bolsillo / the Bocket Book)
Folletos literarios ..
Narrativa completa
Mezclilla
Dona Berta / Mrs. Berta (Clasicos Breves / Brief Classics)
Cuentos/Stories (Clasicos Plaza & Janes)
Benito Pérez Galdós
Su único hijo
Apuntes de clase de "Clarín"
... Su único hijo ...
Sein einziger Sohn
Solos de clarín
Nueva campaña
Obras Completas
Ensayos Y Criticas 1891-1901/ Essays and Critisms 1891-1901 (Voces /Clasicas)
La regenta ; El diablo en Semana Santa
Relatos Breves (Castalia didactica)
A Traves de Un Espejo Oscuro (Coleccion Furtivos)
El Señor y lo demás son cuentos
Adios Cordera Y Otros Cuentos
Cuentos escogidos
Pipá
Extra~no Caso de Gaspar Ganijosa (Current Architecture Catalogues)
El señor y lo demás son cuentos
A '50 poeta
Cuentos Morales
Lecturas Clasicas Graduadas - Level 3
Teresa ; Avecilla ; El hombre de los estrenos
Relatos breves
Teresa
Páginas escogidas
El gallo de Sócrates y otros cuentos
Palique
¡Adiós, "Cordera"!, y otros relatos breves
Critica popular
Amores imposibles
Las vírgenes locas
Ensayos sobre Galdós
Cuentos morales
Doña Berta
Clarín, crítico de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Doña Berta
Cuentos
Cuentos
Siglo pasado
Mezclilla
The moral tales
Adios, "Cordera"! y lo demas son cuentos / Goodbye, "Cordera"! And the Rest are Stories (Tus Libros / Your Books) (Spanish Edition)
Adiós, "Cordera"! y otros cuentos
El señor y lo demás son cuentos
Die Präsidentin
Cinco relatos españoles del siglo XX
Dona Berta (Relato Corto Aguilar)
Erzählungen
Sinfonía de dos novelas ; Su único hijo
Cuentos Morales/Stories of Morals
Cuentos/Alas
Cuentos De Clarin/stories of Clarin
Novela corta española
El hambre en Andalucía
El gallo de Sócrates
Nueva campaña
Narraciones breves
Galdós, novelista
Ensayos y críticas, 1881-1901
La regenta
Su único hijo
Cuentos escogidos
"¡Adiós, Cordera!" y otros cuentos
Un viaje a Madrid
Clarín y sus editores
Apolo en Pafos
Cuesta abajo y otros relatos inconclusos
Superchería y otros relatos
Su Unico Hijo
Galdós
El señor y los demás son cuentos
Cuentos morales
Su u nico hijo
Preludios de Clarin
Su único hijo
Los angeles
Hijos de la crítica
Doña Berta
Treinta relatos
Obras olvidada
Benito Pérez Galdós
Los prólogos de Leopoldo Alas
Doña Berta y otros relatos
Obras selectas [por] Leopoldo Alas "Clarín."
Sermon perdido
Obras selectas
Cambio de luz
Cuentos completos
Cuentos morales
"Vario"-- y varia
Su Unico Hijo
Adios, Cordera! y Otros Cuentos
Apolo en Pafos
Las dos cajas ; Doña Berta y otros relatos
Adio s, "Cordera"! y otros cuentos
Textos y con-textos de Clarín
El señor y lo demas son cuentos
Selección de ensayos
Doña Berta
Cuentos morales
Cuentos de Clarín
Superchería
Cuentos
Palique
Clarín, Gamivet, Azaña
Zurita
Las dos cajas, Doña Berta, y otros relatos
Contes
Cuentos
Obras selectas
Obras completas
Las dos cajas
Andalucía
Treinta relatos
Cuentos
El gallo de Sócrates
Galdós, novelista
Doña Berta, Cuervo, Superchería
Nueva campaña (1885-1901)
Un viaje á Madrid
Obra olvidada; artículos de crítica [por] Clarín
Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson (born 1947)

podcaster, journalist

  • City College of New York, New York University

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P&a
The Last Train to Margaretville
Borrowed tides
The pixel eye
The silk code
The consciousness plague
Digital McLuhan
Cellphone
The essential Sopranos reader
The plot to save Socrates
The Soft Edge
Mind at large
The plot to save Socrates
Learning cyberspace
Altered States: a cyberpunk sci-fi anthology
Touching the Face of the Cosmos
The Plot to Save Socrates
Bestseller
In pursuit of truth
The Silk Code (Phil D'Amato)
Electronic chronicles
RealSpace
Real Space
Marilyn and Monet
New new media
The Pixel Eye
The soft edge
Ian's Ions and Eons
In Pursuit of Truth
Chronica
The Consciousness Plague
Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion
The Loose Ends Saga
The Silk Code (Phil D'Amato) (Volume 1)
New New Media
Mind at large
Unburning Alexandria
The Other Car (Double Realities)
Foreseeable
Robinson Calculator
Last Calls
Little Differences
Peter Brown Called
Essential Sopranos Reader
Paul Levinson Talks to Rufus Sewell about the Man in the High Castle
The Chronology Protection Case
Copyright Notice Case
MySearchLab with Pearson EText -- Access Card -- for New New Media, New New Media
Last Dream Before Morning
Digital Mcluhan
New new media
The Consciousness Plague (Phil D'Amato series) (Volume 2)
Fake News in Real Context
New New Media Plus MySearchLab with EText
It's Real Life
Venice Is for Lovers
Real Space
Urban Corridors
New new media
Mcluhan In An Age Of Social Media
Soft Edge
Shou ji
The Chronos Chronicles: a time travel anthology
Cellphone